A Short History of the Middle Ages Fourth Edition

Plate 3.7: Psalter Page (2nd quarter, 9th cent.). In this sumptuous manuscript dedicated to King Louis the German (r.843–876) th ...

Combining the two traditions in a startlingly original manner, an artist at Saint- Amand (where Plate 3.5 was also produced) cre ...

Plate 3.8: Saint John (2nd half, 9th cent.). Neither classically naturalistic nor entirely decorative in inspiration, this paint ...

In this portrait, Saint John seems to be caught in the act of listening to a voice, ready to write down the words. The artist is ...

Plate 3.9: Utrecht Psalter (c.820–835). Never completed, the Utrecht Psalter was commissioned by Archbishop Ebbo of Reims and ex ...

Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields. / The birds of the ai ...

843 End of iconoclasm in Byzantine Empire 843 Treaty of Verdun c.860 Arab invasions of Byzantium end 863 Missionary expedition o ...

Notes 1 Constantine/Cyril, Prologue to the Gospel, in Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic W ...

Further Reading Bennison, Amira K. The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale Uni ...

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Four Political Communities Reordered (c.900–c.1050) THE LARGE-SCALE centralized governments of the ninth century dissolved in th ...

Map 4.1: Constantinople, c.1100 THE IMPERIAL COURT ...

The Great Palace of Constantinople, a sprawling building complex begun under Constantine, was expanded and beautified under his ...

which depicts Emperor Basil II (r.976–1025), broad of shoulder and well-armed, as cowering figures grovel beneath his feet, and ...

trimmed with gold. Two archangels hover above him. Gabriel, on the left, gives him a lance, while Michael, on the right, transmi ...

Map 4.2: The Byzantine Empire, c.1025 All this openness went only so far, however. Toward the middle of the eleventh century, th ...

into a village or hamlet for the sake of a sale, gift, or inheritance.... For the domination of these persons has increased the ...

Map 4.3: Kievan Rus’, c.1050 Basil made a different type of conquest when the leader of the Rus, a people settled in the region ...

Byzantine form of Christianity. Well before the ninth century, Scandinavians—known as Rus in the East but as Vikings in the West ...